Busy week

Well I can say that it is getting busier and busier by the week. Having an awesome time at school we did activities such as japanese, testing, sports, visiting the museum and so forth. It was very interesting at the museum. We did some interesting role play with costumes amd our educator there was Mr T. He was very humorous and entertaining. We went to the museum to learn more about the Treaty of Waitangi otherwise known in Maori as Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
For japanese we our teacher Mika made okanomi-yaki. Her recipe was very delicious when the finished product was on a platter served for us. We also had green tea which was very nice. Mika said that it is good with cancer.
For sports I played softball and it was really fun. My team got a few home runs but the other team was a bit more skilled.
Overall it has been a really good week. I made it as Waipa House Captain,  made it into rock band and I am still planning more activities I want to be involved with.

Visual Language

For the past few weeks our class has been doing a visual language task where you have to put together a collage to show where you want to be, what you want to do etc. Here is my artwork I did.

Visual language explanation

For visual language I incorporated a lot pictures that had some similarities between another. Here are what my symbols represent.

I wanted to be a singer, dancer and actor in movies so I included negative film strips, a photo of a hip hop dancing girl and two of my favourite singers Jennifer Lopez, otherwise known as J Lo, and Beyoncé Knowles, also known as Queen B or R n B Queen.

Not only are these two women beautiful and talented but they are very polite and inspirational. They are my idols. I have included a baritone saxophone (bari) and a guitar because I would like to carry on playing bari and learn guitar. If you look right next to J Lo’s head on the left you will see a stage which shows that I want to end up there singing for people.

The two pictures that show car interior and the outside of a car represent what I want my car to roughly look like. I would a mustang or a BMW i8.

There are three mansions on my dreamboard. They represent my dream houses. I want a pool and a lot of room inside overlooking outstanding scenery.

I want to travel all around the world so I stuck a picture of a plane and another of a globe with buildings going all around it. By the time I am around 60 I would have liked to travel to most countries of the world. I would like to experience at least 10 extreme theme parks.

There are some islands I would like to see such as Rarotonga, Samoa and Fiji. There are two photos not far from each other that show a beach and a beachy kind of resort.

Home is where my family are so I incorporated some of my heritage and culture into the photo. I added an actual photo of my Marae Whakakotahitanga. It is well known as Te kotahitanga, Rae O Te Papa and Tirohia. I added a photo of me in a kapa haka uniform. The photo was taken at the Hauraki Kapa Haka Competition in 2015. That represents me being Maori and my love for kapa haka. I wanted to reinforce kapa haka because that is one of the places I want to go. To Te Matatini like some of my family did. The photo of the mountain is Rangitoto which is what my Maunga (mountain) is. That represents my hometown.

I love my bestfriends so I added a photo of two friends taking a selfie to show that those are mine and my friends goals. I added a photo of my best friend holding a flower with me and my hair flowing in the wind. There are a few more little photos of my cousin and I taking photos. That represents the bond between my family and I to show the content between one another. The photo of me with a red-ish pink-ish flower shows the vibrancy I want to have in my life. The three other photos of me were added just to show my love for life and freedom.

The words shown on my visual language are the mottos or things I want to live by. Not so much the perfect though because no one and nothing can be exactly perfect.

There are three last pictures I have not yet explained. The candle is to reinforce the word below family. The converse show is to represent my love for shoes. I want to have a variety of shoes for every occasion I might have. The hologram looking phone is to show what my phone goals are.

Raiha

reflection on my first weeks back at school

Well I can say that I am not used to staying in class this much. I am so used to going out of class and doing band and choir. I can't wait for those to start again though. My weeks so far have definitely been different without the old year 8's and now being a year 8 myself I keep forgetting I am. I keep putting my hand up when the teachers say year 7's which is quite amusing as you would think I know. I enjoy the new year 7's but they are beating the year 8's at some things this year like finishing work on time. I can say that it is a bit harder to get into the things I did last year as the year 7's and 8's have stepped up their game. It is fun to make new friends and learn more about my peers. I can't wait to see what the year has to offer.

2016 new year!!!

2016! Time flies quickly at Te Awamutu Intermediate. Last year was just a taste tester for all us year 7's but now we are no longer year 7's. Now we are YEAR 8'S!! This means more activities, more jobs, stepping up to the challenge and much more. I have grown interest in applying for Class Councillor and House Captain but if I should succeed in acquiring one of these roles I would really love to go for HEAD STUDENT!!! I am so excited for what the year has to offer this year and can't wait to partake in all of the action.

My first days at school have been very exciting. I have met a lot of year 7's who say they are going to strive whilst at T.A.I. Our pool is now up and running again for the term and I love seeing all the students enjoying themselves.

Kapahaka is up and running again and so is band!!! The amount of new students is unbelievable as there are tonnes but we can't say that they are going to ALL stay.

Well I hope that I can keep up with this blog by posting a status every week but it may not be possible. Anyway its time to go so see you later.